coincidence
/kəʊˈɪnsɪdəns/noun
1
- a remarkable concurrence of events or circumstances without apparent causal connection巧合, 巧事：
it was a coincidence that she was wearing a jersey exactly like Laura's
她碰巧穿着一件和劳拉一模一样的运动衫
mass noun they met by coincidence.他们是偶然遇见的。
2
- mass noun correspondence in nature or in time of occurrence符合; 同时发生：
the coincidence of interest between the mining companies and certain politicians.
这些矿业公司和某些政客之间的利益一致。
3
- Physics the presence of ionizing particles or other objects in two or more detectors simultaneously, or of two or more signals simultaneously in a circuit【物理】符合。
词源
early 17th cent. （in the sense 'occupation of the same space'）： from medieval Latin coincidentia, from coincidere 'coincide, agree' （see COINCIDE）. Sense 3 dates from the 1930s.